A Nuneaton man who assaulted two women while on a suspended sentence for other crimes will spend Christmas in prison.

Daniel Laws, aged 20, appeared before Nuneaton magistrates after committing four offences.

He was already serving a suspended 16-week sentence from June when he was convicted of assaulting two police officers and a publican and smashing a door window.

The court was told that Laws, of Sterling Way, had since cashed two stolen cheques and assaulted two women, on separate occasions. He admitted all the charges.

Defence solicitor Naz Vania, who asked magistrates to give Laws one last chance, said: “My client has had issues in the past relating to drug debts and had found himself in dire straits.”

Mark Lunt, prosecuting, said Laws had stolen two cheques from the family glass business and cashed them, receiving £576. He was on bail for those offences when, in October, he assaulted an ex-girlfriend.

On November 14, while on bail and still under a suspended sentence, Laws assaulted another woman at a party, hitting her in the eye with a glass.

Magistrates imposed 15 weeks of the suspended sentence. In addition, Laws received a total of five weeks for the four new offences, with two of them to run consecutively.

He was also ordered to pay £125 compensation for the second assault and £476 to the company which cashed the stolen cheques.